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Announcement: The Digital Text Community forum ("digitizing ink-on-p

Jon Noring — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:56:29 GMT

[Feel free to forward this announcement to other relevant forums] Everyone, I am announcing the start of "The Digital Text Community" (DTC), a public mailing

Update on the "Simple Book" multi-output ebook authoring system

Jon Noring — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:32:37 GMT

Update posted to the TeleRead blog: http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5866 Includes links to the latest DTD and online demonstration document in the "SimpleBook"

Re: FW: Questions about Old Standard PostScript printer fonts and P

Leonard Rosenthol — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:04:13 GMT

... We tried! In addition, many of the requirements from PDF/A have been incorporated into PDF/X and PDF/E as well - and are under consideration for PDF/UA. As

Re: FW: Questions about Old Standard PostScript printer fonts and P

Jon Noring — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:53:01 GMT

... Thanks! Very informative. I admire the PDF/A standard for its no-compromising position on "doing it right". Jon Noring

Re: FW: Questions about Old Standard PostScript printer fonts and P

rickbarry@... — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:11:31 GMT

FYI, the below is a current thread on the Electronic Records (ERECS-L) list re font requirements for conversion in the PDF/A standard. Regards, Rick In a

The IDPF Standards "Bandwagon"

Jon Noring — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:43:51 GMT

Everyone, A few here may be interested in the TeleRead blog article I wrote which provides a different perspective on the IDPF OCF 1.0 container standard:

Adobe Digital Editions deconstructed -- what’s under the format h

Jon Noring — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:52:03 GMT

A few may be interested in the TeleRead blog article I wrote which "deconstructs" the "epub" format used in Adobe's Digital Editions preview:

Re: "Book Indexing" markup in XML documents ?

Jon Noring — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:36:24 GMT

... Rick's message reply is an outstanding summary of several issues related to indexing. What I found of most interest is looking at author-supplied indexing,

Re: "Book Indexing" markup in XML documents ?

rickbarry@... — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:09:17 GMT

Indexing is a hugely important type of metadata, in my opinion. I suppose that the context in which we are carrying out this discussion is mostly in regard

Re: "Book Indexing" markup in XML documents ?

Jon Noring — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:13:52 GMT

... Again, interesting info. The feedback I've been getting, from here and from Jon Jermey and David Ream (who is one of the top experts in the area of XML and

Re: "Book Indexing" markup in XML documents ?

Peter Ring — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:32:01 GMT

Please also include out-of-band indexterm entries. I've had a lot of utility from DocBook indexterm's zone attribute:

Re: "Book Indexing" markup in XML documents ?

Jon Noring — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:25:36 GMT

... Thanks! From my initial study, it appears TEI is a little more powerful at representing embedded indexing information than is DocBook. In my chats with a

Re: "Book Indexing" markup in XML documents ?

Syd Bauman — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:13:25 GMT

Some limitations of the brief sample Jon provided and IIRC of DocBook (but lord knows, I am no DocBook expert): * Only provides for 1 index. * Definitionally

Re: "Book Indexing" markup in XML documents ?

Jon Noring — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:25:51 GMT

... Cool! That clarifies it. It also shows I was close, although the indexing terms in DocBook are part of content, while in my example, they were attribute

Re: "Book Indexing" markup in XML documents ?

Michael Day — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:54:24 GMT

... You place elements through the document, then at the end place an empty element which is where the actual index will be generated.